Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales

Byzantine writes "The Mississippi Legislature has passed MS House Bill 1461 which would amend the state's tax laws specifically to charge sales tax on 'electrically transferred digital products,' including products bought via mail-order. The bill is currently on the governor's desk awaiting signature." Softpedia claims that 20 states have enacted download taxes of one sort or another — most of them for iTunes music — and that New York is considering taxing downloads of all kinds.

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Re:Inevitable....

[davidsyes]

Your response is yet ANOTHER testimony to the brokenness of the comment/score-comment system here. When a comment is rated, and then someone attaches a comment to it, if they can cite evidence contrary to an insightful or other "elevated" or "lowered" comment, then the commentator should be identified as the one affecting someone's score/rating. Moreover, the cited reference information could be verified. It's not the sort of thing for fast "discourse", but it would help clean up this mess where clearly faulty comments elevated remain elevated, and where blatant retaliation is used to drive down someone's score gets left uncorrected.

DAMN! What is wront with the slash sytem.